Raw land assembly
Buying contiguous parcels before they are entitled or powered, where value is still cheap.
Land & Sites
The scarce asset is not land. It is powered land.
A site without power is a field. ELO Advisors sources and assembles the land that is actually buildable: parcels with zoning, entitlement, and a secured path to power, packaged off-market and handed over shovel-ready.
01 / The Asset
Dirt is cheap. Power-ready dirt is not.
With vacancy at record lows and most capacity pre-leased before it is built, the gating asset is no longer land. It is a parcel that is powered, permitted, and ready, and there is nowhere near enough of it.
Powered-land premium
10x+
What power-secured land can fetch over raw ground in the same area.
Source: JLL / Bisnow, 2025.
02 / The Market
Demand for buildable sites, far short of supply.
The shortfall of powered land is structural, and the work to create it takes years.
$200k+
Per acre for powered, entitled land, against $10 to $30k for raw ground
JLL / Bisnow
~20k
Acres of operational powered land worldwide, against roughly 40k more needed within five years
Hines
~7yr
To take raw land to shovel-ready, dominated by the power question
JLL
$1.2T
Of data-center capacity expected on powered land through 2030
Hines
From dirt to shovel-ready. Click through the value.
Raw land $10-30k / acre
Cheap ground with no entitlement and no power. All of the work, and the risk, is still ahead.
Entitled $40-80k / acre
Zoned and permitted, but still without a secured path to power. Half the question answered.
Powered $150-400k / acre
A real, secured path to power. This is the step that creates most of the value.
Shovel-ready $200k-1M+ / acre
Powered, permitted, and ready to break ground. What a hyperscaler will pay a premium for.
Sources: Hines, 2025; JLL, 2025; CBRE, 2025-26.
03 / What We Do
From raw ground to shovel-ready.
We source, assemble, and broker land at every stage, however you want to take it.
Powered, shovel-ready sites
Land delivered with zoning, entitlement, and a secured path to power. Break ground now.
Options & land-banking
Controlling sites with limited capital while the power question resolves.
Ground leases
Long-term control of a site without the full purchase up front.
Power-rights bundling
Packaging a parcel with its interconnection position or on-site generation rights.
Site selection
Finding the parcels where power, fiber, water, and zoning actually line up.
04 / How We Work
We turn dirt into a buildable site.
The value is created between raw land and shovel-ready: power, entitlement, and the assembly. That is the work we do.
- 01
We define the site
Power, capacity, fiber, water, zoning, and the timeline the build needs.
- 02
We source off-market
Parcels and powered sites before they are listed or fully repriced.
- 03
We assemble the bundle
Land, a credible power path, and entitlement into a single package.
- 04
We structure the deal
Purchase, option, or ground lease, documented and clean.
- 05
We hand over shovel-ready
A site the build can break ground on, not a field with potential.
05 / Where We Fit
We do not list land. We make it buildable.
Anyone can show you a parcel. The value is securing the power, the entitlement, and the assembly that turns it into a site a hyperscaler will pay a premium for.
We manufacture powered land
Not a listing broker. We turn raw ground into power-secured, buildable product.
Off-market
The parcels that matter move before they hit a screen. That is where we work.
Land and power together
The bundle is the scarce asset, and the hard one to assemble. We assemble it.
06 / Our Network
We sit between the landowner and the build.
Buyers
- Data-center developers
- Hyperscalers and operators
- REITs and infrastructure funds
- EPCs and site selectors
Supply
- Landowners and farmers
- Utilities and IPPs
- Municipalities and counties
- Brokers and land-bankers
07 / Questions
What makes land valuable now?
Power, not dirt. A parcel with a secured path to power, plus zoning and fiber, is worth several times raw ground.
Do you sell raw land?
We can, but the value is in the bundle: land plus a real power path plus entitlement, delivered shovel-ready.
Where do you operate?
The emerging powered-land corridors where power is available, across Texas, the Midwest, the Southeast, and the Mountain West.
How are you paid?
A success fee on the transaction, or a margin when we assemble and resell. Aligned with delivering a buildable site.
08 / Contact
Have a site, or need one?
Tell us the market, the capacity, and the timeline, or the land you hold. We will tell you how we would source, power, or place it.